sou·tane

[soo-tahn]
noun Ecclesiastical.
a cassock.

Origin:
1830–40; < French < Italian sottana, feminine of sottano placed below, equivalent to sott(o) below (< Latin subtus) + -ano -an; form of the French word influenced by sous under

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soutane (suːˈtæn) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
RC Church a priest's cassock
 
[C19: from French, from Old Italian sottana, from Medieval Latin subtanus (adj) (worn) beneath, from Latin subtus below]

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Soutane is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
Example sentences
He heard his soutane, which had caught on a projection of the stone rain-pipe, tear away at each movement he made.
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